Our Friday website article each week is dedicated to listing national grant programmes with an upcoming application deadline. All of the programmes summarised below are featured in detail in the daily grants bulletin we send out at 8.30 each weekday morning throughout the year.
The following list covers the period Monday 6th July to Sunday 19th July 2026.
If you click on the title of each grant scheme, it should take you directly to the grant programme in question. A free 2-week trial of the daily grants bulletin is available for anyone who would like to try it out. Simply email GRIN at info@grin.coop with ‘Free 2-week trial’ as the subject heading and you’ll receive the bulletin the following morning.
1. National grant programmes with an Application Deadline between Monday 6th July and Sunday 12th July 2026
Thursday 9 July 2026 at 6pm
THE EARLY YEARS PROMOTER FUND
Managed by the Performing Rights Society (PRS) Foundation and supported by Arts Council England through Supporting Grassroots Music funding from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), the Fund offers grants of up to £3,500. The funding is designed to help emerging promoters in England expand their activities, increase their reach, and build sustainable careers within the grassroots music sector.
Sunday 12 July 2026
THE HALL & WOODHOUSE COMMUNITY CHEST
Revenue grants of between £300 and £3,000 are available to voluntary and community organisations, including Community Interest Companies, based and working in the area covered by the Hall & Woodhouse brewery across Southern England. Applicants should have an annual income of £200,000 or less.
2. National grant programmes with an Application Deadline between Monday 13th July and Sunday 19th July 2026
Monday 13 July 2026 for all 3 grant programmes
THE 7STARS FOUNDATION: CHILD POVERTY, SOCIAL IMPACT FUNDING AND INDIVIDUAL FUNDING
Child Poverty Grants up to £60,000 over 2 years and Social Impact Grants up to £10,000 over 2 years are available for smaller UK registered charities. Grants of £500 are also available to enable young people to fulfil their potential.
Tuesday 14 July 2026
HOSPITAL SATURDAY FUND STANDARD GRANTS
One-off grants up to £2,000 are available for registered health charities, hospices and medical organisations based and operating within the UK or the Republic of Ireland for medical projects that require capital funding, medical care or research, medical training and running costs.
Wednesday 15 July 2026 at 12 noon (midday).The application window for registering an Expression of Interest will open at 12 noon (midday) on Wednesday 8th July 2026.
THE FORE AUTUMN 2026 GRANTS ROUND
The Fore is a significant grant-provider that offers unrestricted grants of up to £45,000 (previously £30,000) over 1-3 years to registered charities, Community Interest Companies (CICs) and Community Benefit Societies with an annual income of under £500,000 to transform their impact by unlocking exponential growth, sustainability, efficiency or create some other major step forward. The Trust particularly encourages applications from smaller organisations working with marginalised groups and led by people in the community that may have found it hard to access Trust and Foundation funding in the past.
Wednesday 16 July 2026 at 5pm (The Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) and the Movember funding both have a deadline for submitting an Expression of Interest of 5pm on Wednesday 15th July 2026. The People’s Health Trust will open to applications later this year (date to be confirmed).
THE MEN’S HEALTH COMMUNITY FUND (MHCF)
This is a major new partnership grant programme between the Department for Health and Social Care, Movember and the People’s Health Trust. Grants are available to voluntary and community sector organisations in England for actions that support the delivery of the Men’s Health Strategy for England by investing in preventative, community-led approaches to improve health and wellbeing and build understanding of what works to engage men.
Sunday 19 July 2026 at midnight.
THE NETWORK RAIL COMMUNITY TREE PLANTING FUND
Grants of between £2,500 and £10,000 are available for a range of organisations and individual landowners in England, Scotland and Wales for community tree planting projects that directly benefit people, communities and wildlife.
Sunday 19 July 2026 at midnight.
THE TREE COUNCIL BRANCING OUT FUND
Grants of between £250 and £2,500 are available to a range of not-for-profit organisations, including town and parish councils, for tree planting projects across the UK. Project proposals should assist schools and community groups with tree and hedge planting initiatives that involve and educate children and young people aged 21 and under.
